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Segmentation of Continuous Speech into Consonant and Vowel Units using Formant Frequencies

by V. Anantha Natarajan, S. Jothilakshmi
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 56 - Number 15
Year of Publication: 2012
Authors: V. Anantha Natarajan, S. Jothilakshmi
10.5120/8968-3185

V. Anantha Natarajan, S. Jothilakshmi . Segmentation of Continuous Speech into Consonant and Vowel Units using Formant Frequencies. International Journal of Computer Applications. 56, 15 ( October 2012), 24-27. DOI=10.5120/8968-3185

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author = { V. Anantha Natarajan, S. Jothilakshmi },
title = { Segmentation of Continuous Speech into Consonant and Vowel Units using Formant Frequencies },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { October 2012 },
volume = { 56 },
number = { 15 },
month = { October },
year = { 2012 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 24-27 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume56/number15/8968-3185/ },
doi = { 10.5120/8968-3185 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

This paper addresses the issues in segmentation of continuous speech into sub-word units of speech using Formants and support vector machines (SVMs). Many studies have been conducted to identify and discriminate vowels and consonants using acoustic/articulatory differences. In this study the continuous speech is segmented into smaller speech units and each unit is classified either consonant or vowel using the Formant frequencies. This process when further combined with recognition of each unit will form a complete speech recognition system. The proposed detection strategy is tested with the speech signals recorded from the television broadcast.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Support Vector Machine (SVM) Formants Frequencies Speech recognition system